SocraticGadfly: France again rejects GMO corn

July 04, 2009

France again rejects GMO corn

That’s despite the claim from the European Food Safety Authority, the European Union’s food watchdog, that Monsanto GMO corn is safe.

Not so fast.

The EFSA refused to follow through on a French request that it examine whether or not GMO crops, often bred to be able to be specially used with herbicides and pesticides by the same company that creates the GMO crop, didn’t perhaps produce chemically super-resistant weeds. EFSA said it wasn’t ready to do that until next year, but went ahead and claimed the corn is safe now.

Nice try.

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